{"id":20033,"date":"2026-04-12T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=20033"},"modified":"2026-04-12T05:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:15:02","slug":"iraq-elects-kurdish-politician-nizar-amidi-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/04\/12\/iraq-elects-kurdish-politician-nizar-amidi-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq elects Kurdish politician Nizar Amidi as President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Nizar Amidi, a Kurdish politician, has been elected as the new president of Iraq after a delayed parliamentary vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Associated Press, Amidi is a member of the political bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under Iraq\u2019s political power-sharing system, the presidency is traditionally held by a Kurdish figure, while the prime minister is chosen from the Shiite majority and the parliament speaker from the Sunni community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amidi, an engineer born in Duhok, previously served as an aide to two former Iraqi presidents. He secured victory in the second round of voting among 15 Kurdish candidates, defeating Fuad Hussein, the current foreign minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He takes office at a time when Iraq faces significant political and economic pressure linked to the ongoing tensions involving the United States, Israel, and Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Nizar Amidi, a Kurdish politician, has been elected as the new president of Iraq after a delayed parliamentary vote. According to Associated Press, Amidi is a member of the political bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. Under Iraq\u2019s political power-sharing system, the presidency is traditionally held by a Kurdish figure, while the prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20037,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033\/revisions\/20037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}